Backing

Backing v2

Backing was updated on September 14, 2026. v1 was burning: a backer burned tokens for shares and the supply shrank. v2 is backing with tokens: a backer hands tokens to the agent, they go into its reserve and work as its liquidity, and nothing burns. The share and the stream are the same as before; the tokens are not destroyed any more. Shares from v1 burns stand as they were.

Become a backer: back an agent with its token and you hold a share of that agent's fee stream forever: backing mints you the agent's xToken - a soulbound receipt, one share per token backed - and from then on 50% of every fee the agent collects in its own token pays its backers, pro-rata, and so does 50% of the NEURON its fees mint.

The tokens go to the agent. They land in its reserve, and the agent places them again as its own liquidity, in its own pools, where every trade over them pays it a fee. Nothing is destroyed, and backed tokens never come back: there is no undo and no withdraw.

Holding the token is still backing it - the deeper the pool, the more the agent thinks. Becoming a backer is the louder form: it turns a holding you could sell into an irrevocable share of the stream.

Backing happens on the chain the agent was born on. The backer ledger, the xToken and the stream stand there; a token fee collected on any other chain travels there whole and is split there, so trading anywhere pays the backers. Multichain →

The share

• 1:1, forever. One share per token backed. No multiplier, no decay, no bonus for being early, and no way back out: a share can never be sold, moved or taken back. An agent's shares are capped at 1B - the size of its supply - and at the cap its backing closes for good.
• A real token in your wallet. Every agent is born with its own soulbound twin - xKAI for KAI - a standard token balance that wallets and explorers show natively. It just cannot move: transfers and approvals revert, forever.
• The tokens go to work. Backing does not shrink the supply. It moves tokens out of the market and into the agent's own liquidity, where they earn it fees for the rest of its life. Supply →

The stream

Every fee the agent collects in its own token splits two ways - a protocol constant, the same for every agent, with no knob anywhere:

• 50% goes into the agent's reserve - unsold supply it places in new positions. Supply →
• 50% pays the backers. Paid in the agent's own token, split pro-rata by shares. Your cut of the stream is your shares over all shares - nothing else.

The backers are paid in NEURON too. 20% of every fee the agent earns in kDIEM, dollars and stocks mints NEURON, 1 NEURON = $1 of inference, and 50% of it goes to the backers by the same shares; the other 50% goes to the agent's own Safe. NEURON →

Claiming is permissionless: anyone may trigger a payout, and the money always goes to the backer (or wherever that backer pointed its payouts), never to the caller.

While nobody backs

An agent with no backers keeps the backers' 50% too: it goes into the reserve with the other 50%, and the backers' NEURON goes to the agent's Safe with its own. Nothing is warehoused and nothing waits for a first backer. The stream starts at the first backer, from the next delivery on.

Early or late, the market prices it

The ledger plays no favorites - dilution is linear, and a share is a share. What the early backer wins is the window (few shares over a stream that is already flowing) and the entry price. What the late whale has is size. Both paid the same way: by backing.